If you want to be one of the first to watch Zack Snyder’s new Superman film Man of Steel, there’s only one place you’ll be able to get tickets: Walmart. The Hollywood Reporter writes that seats will go on sale on May 18th at 8AM in more than 3,700 Walmart stores across the country for...
Retail giant tries to make a name in first-run movies
Following last October's Congressional report stating that Huawei’s networking equipment poses a national security risk, the business group in charge is announcing plans to back out of the US market, reports IDG. On Tuesday, carrier business...
LG's profit fell 22 percent year-on-year as a stagnant TV market offset the company's resurgent mobile business. Despite shipping 10.3 million smartphones in Q1 2013 in what the company describes as its best performance since entering the market, low sales of plasma TVs meant that operating profit fell to 350 billion won ($322.88 million) from 448 billion won ($400 million) a year ago.
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Retro is so hot right now. Mad Men is on its sixth season and still pulling in huge ratings. The Great Gatsby is due to hit theaters next month, with a period-correct 1920s setting. And Fujifilm's new X100S, an update from 2010's X100, is one of the most retro inspired cameras we've seen to date. But despite its throwback look and feel, it has all the capabilities one would expect from a modern digital camera. Available now for $1,299.99, the X100S is one of the latest entries into the increasingly crowded high-end fixed lens compact camera segment.
At that price, you wonder who this camera is for, exactly. It's a bit out of the price range of the average camera buyer, and the camera's looks beg to be used by a photographer who knows what they're doing. But can the X100S take the place of a pro's rig when on the go? Is the X100S just...
Fuji's snazzy X100 gets a few new tricks up its sleeve
Apple just posted its hotly-anticipated Q2 2013 earnings, and the company posted a profit of $9.5b on revenues of $43.6b, compared to $11.6b in profit on $39.2b in revenue this quarter last year and $13.1b in profit on $54.5b in revenue last quarter. That's right in line with the company's guidance from last quarter.
Most importantly, iPhone sales are fairly flat year-over-year. Apple sold...
Apple makes money... but is it enough money?
A mere decade from now, humankind will be an interplanetary species. At least according to the founders of Mars One, a Dutch non-profit aiming to send four people to the red planet in 2023 — and leave them there. The goal? For those intrepid settlers to develop an autonomous, self-sustaining society.
Speaking to a handful of reporters at New York's Hotel Pennsylvania on Monday, the...
With compact camera sales tanking in the face of high-end smartphones, we're now seeing most manufacturers show off models that attempt to differentiate themselves by focusing on image quality. Companies like Sony, Nikon, and Ricoh have taken the approach of fitting large sensors and fast lenses into tiny bodies, but Panasonic's new entry into the market — the $499.99 LF1 — competes on different ground. While its 1/1.7-inch sensor is a little larger than most cheap point-and-shoots, it falls short of similar models we've seen lately, and the 28-200mm-equivalent F2.0-5.9 lens offers a...
You won't see it advertised on billboards or television, you won't hear it mentioned in a carrier store, and your less technologically-savvy friends most certainly won't know about it — but quietly, HTC's done something extraordinarily important this month: it's broken AT&T's stranglehold on its nationwide LTE network.
I can't underscore enough what a big deal this is. It's a move that even Google, for all its money, power, and influence, didn't make with the Nexus 4.
Like T-Mobile and essentially every other carrier in the world that relies exclusively on a SIM to identify your phone on the network, AT&T will happily let a customer...
Swype is finally making its Android keyboard available on the Google Play store for easier downloading and installation. It's the first time that Swype can be easily installed — previously the keyboard had required a user to sign up for a Beta and uncheck the "unknown sources" box deep within Android's settings. The keyboard will cost $0.99 "for a limited time," though there's no word yet on how long that will last nor what the price will be...
Look out, SwiftKey
AT&T customers may be the first to get their hands on the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone in the United States, but T-Mobile buyers may suffer a wait. While the "uncarrier" originally planned to begin online sales of the Galaxy S4 smartphone on April 24th, T-Mobile now says that online availability...
In most video games where guns are involved, you're always aiming where you look. Now, with the help of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headgear, the Razer Hydra motion controller, and a couple of software mods, early adopters can move their head and arms independently in the immersive dystopian...
You may have heard about it on the news: a rogue group of US soldiers killing civilians “for sport” in Afghanistan. For weeks, it was a staple on 24-hour cable channels, inspiring long newspaper and magazine pieces and sending dozens of...
Twitter is reportedly working on a two-factor authentication system. Wired writes that the company is currently testing the new security solution internally before rolling it out to the public.
Following a number of high-profile hacks, including that of Wired editor Mat Honan,...
The Sunlight Foundation and the Media Standards Trust have released a new browser extension along with a website called "Churnalism." The purpose of the tool is to automatically check websites for plagiarized content. The tool works by parsing the text on the site and comparing it to a...
Bitcoin has had a wild ride these past few months. The stateless digital currency’s price has soared to new heights only to plunge back down to earth at less than half its previous value. As the price of gold takes a nose dive of its own, some serious economists have risen to Bitcoin’s defense as true believers urge traders to hang on. Others argue the electronic money scheme is either a dangerous fad, a form...
Cooper Union is one of the last schools in the US to offer a university education tuition-free, but that will change next year. On Tuesday, the board of trustees announced that beginning in the fall of 2014, the school will begin charging students...
Amid a growing consensus that passwords are not adequately secure, the group of tech companies working to supplant them with something stronger has gained a significant new ally. The FIDO Alliance said today that Google, which has shown a strong interest lately in making user authentication more...
Anyone that follows the Associated Press on Twitter just heard "news" of an unprecedented national crisis. "Two Explosions in the White House and...
The venerable Kenneth Branagh wasn't able to turn Thor into the hit of Marvel-sized proportions that fans expected — but maybe a new director...
"Good morning and thank you all for coming. We want to kick off this year by introducing a magical and revolutionary product today. Let's go back to 1994, when we introduced one of the first consumer digital cameras. Just a few years ago, we reinvented the market with smartphone cameras like the iPhone.
But we think we've got something that is...
During Apple's quarter earnings call, CEO Tim Cook took a question on whether or not Apple would consider shipping an iPhone with a 5-inch display. The question is pertinent not only because of...
The US military is due to pull most combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. But after that, an armed American presence could remain over Afghan skies, depending on what agreement for continuing operations is reached between the US and Afghanistan. Air Force Major General H.D. Polumbo, Jr, told reporters at the Pentagon today that drones, including armed unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the US, will likely continue to be used to support the Afghan army's operations through 2014 and probably on into 2015. “You’ll have that hybrid ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] as I call it, that armed ISR, remotely...
On April 15th, 2013, two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. As photographs of the event spread across news and social media, police scrambled to sweep the site for more explosives. After investigators determined who is responsible for what the White House has called "an act of terror," a massive manhunt began in Massachusetts that ended with one suspect killed and one captured by police.
A court ruling in Manhattan today represents one more incremental step in the drawn-out battle between transit regulators, established interests, and companies that hope to change the way the taxi industry works. Technically, it was the New York...
Twitter has become much more than 140-character blurbs, and now Tweetbot is using that additional content to turn our media-rich feeds into a stream of photos and videos for users to quickly scroll through. An update released today for Tweetbot...
Harper Reed, the chief technology officer behind the successful 2012 Obama reelection campaign, is presently working on a new mobile commerce app. Speaking at the NEXT13 startup conference in Berlin today, Reed bemoaned the current state of mobile payments — pointing out, among other things, how anachronistic the shopping cart icon and metaphor have become — and outlined his goals in trying to improve matters. He cites the immediacy of...
AT&T has just released its financial report for Q1 2013, announcing an addition of 296,000 postpaid customers during the quarter. The carrier also says it amassed 1.2 million new smartphone subscribers, leading to its best-ever first quarter of smartphone sales. 6 million left shelves in all, with the iPhone enjoying a majority of those sales at 4.8 million. 72 percent (approximately 48.3 million) of on-contract AT&T customers are now carrying...
